Tuesday, November 11, 2014

New Rooting Tools (1.0) for the HTC One M8 (3.28.401.9)

Here it is! Newest Rooting Tools 1.0 for the HTC One M8 3.28.401.9 system software just arrived. Don't want to flash any custom ROM but looking for a root access on your HTC One M8? No problem - it's what Rooting Tools are for! What's included?

[boot.img] disabled ro.adb.secure and ro.secure

[boot.img] disabled USB debugging icon on statusbar

[boot.img] enabled USB debugging by default

[boot.img] init.d scripts support (system/etc/init.d)

[boot.img] removed trigger command to execute install_recovery.sh to prevent stock recovery from being re-installed after each system reboot

Device rooted with the above method should have no problems installing latest official OTA update because:a) OTA update checks for files integrity, but it doesn't check if any extra files were added to the system partition.b) OTA update doesn't check the integrity of the boot.img, so you can flash a custom kernel if you want.

boot.img source:3.28.401.9

target device: HTC One M8 (0P6B10000)

target device OS version: 3.28.401.9

Download:

Rooting Tools are available for download here. More details and discussion about Rooting Tools can be found on my XDA thread.

If you are a power user and a custom ROMs flasher, you can also grab the latest Android Revolution HD based on the 3.28.401.9 update with many extra goodies under the hood.